Sam Altman


Analyses

Web2’s Lesson for AI: Decentralize to Protect Humanity

In order to prevent the potentially destructive impact of AI on humanity, we need open-source innovation and collective governance that is possible through blockchain protocols and Web3, rather than the monopoly defaulting structure of Web2, according to Michael Casey, CoinDesk's chief content officer.

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Analyses

AI Boosters Would Sacrifice Humanity for a Simulacra - as Long as They're in Control

AI boosterism and associated “long-termist” ideas may be a threat to your privacy, property and civil rights.

Eliezer Yudkowsky's "AI Safety" movement has gazed into the distant future - and decided you shouldn't be allowed to have privacy in the present. (Wikimedia Commons)

Analyses

What’s the Relationship Between Crypto and AI? Is There Any?

Distributed AI projects such as SingularityNET want composable artificial intelligence managed through public blockchains. That's far preferable to Silicon Valley's corporate authoritarianism.

Silicon Valley's AI road map implies a future authoritarian dystopia. Distributed AI projects managed by blockchains suggest an alternative path forward. (Getty Images)

Crypto Wallet Tracker Context Raises $19.5M in Funding Round

The round was co-led by Variant Fund and OpenAI’s Sam Altman.

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Marchés

Traders Are ‘Apeing’ Into a Sam Altman Crypto Lookalike, Driving Prices Higher

Prices for a completely different Worldcoin have climbed 68.4% over the last 24 hours, according to CoinGecko data.

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Vidéos

Worldcoin, Now Valued at $1B, Has Grand Plans to Get You to Gaze Into the Orb

Former Y Combinator President Sam Altman’s Worldcoin has raised $25 million from investors including Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Coinbase Ventures. Valued at $1 billion, the project bets billions of people will line up to gaze into “The Orb” in exchange for crypto, which over 130,000 users already have.

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Vidéos

Sam Altman Wants to Scan Your Eyeball in Exchange for Cryptocurrency

Sam Altman, former head of startup accelerator Y Combinator, is starting his own cryptocurrency called "worldcoin." For worldcoin to work, users must let the project scan their retinas, according to Bloomberg. "The Hash" team explore larger issues of privacy.

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Technologies

Gaze Into the Orb to Collect Your Worldcoin

Y Combinator's basic income idea sounds creepy as hell.

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